The Fifty-Fifth Chapter of Isaiah, Part 13

Others, as in a furnace tried,
With strength of passive grace endued,
Tortures and deaths, through faith, defied;
Through faith resisted unto blood.

Earth they beheld with generous scorn,
On all its proffer'd goods look'd down;
High on a fiery chariot borne,
They lost their life to keep their crown.

Secure a better life to find,
The path of varied death they trod,
Their souls triumphantly resign'd,
And died into the arms of God.

The prelude of contempt they found,
A spectacle to fiends and men;
Cruelly mock'd, and scourged, and bound,
Till death shut up the bloody scene.

Or stoned, they glorified their Lord;
Or joy'd, asunder sawn, to' expire;
Or rush'd to meet the slaughtering sword;
Or triumph'd in the torturing fire.